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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3562343, member: 10461&quot;]I don&#039;t collect paper currency, but if I did, I&#039;d dabble in US fractional currency, or German notgeld.&nbsp; Especially the latter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like these small sized notes.&nbsp; They often have beautiful scenes and bright colors.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Uncirculated 5-piece set of 1921 notgeld notes from Paderborn are not so colorful as most - they&#039;re in black and white, with silhouetted designs - but they&#039;re still quite lovely.&nbsp; There are 25-, 50-, and 75-pfennig notes as well as 1- and 2-mark denominations here.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Most</i> of them can be described as &quot;lovely&quot;, anyway.&nbsp; Given the political and monetary instability of the time, many notgeld notes have political and satirical messages.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2-mark note in this set in particular has some irreverent commentary on the state of the currency, with cheeky verse and a picture to match.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]947207[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/UXvM20DlTgGK3tNEh0Zh_s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This stuff could become habit forming.&nbsp; It is certainly budget-friendly.&nbsp; I think I spent more on the medium pizza I had for dinner last night than I did this set of notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just bought a double-sided float frame with glass on both sides to display these in.&nbsp; Think they&#039;ll make a nice Father&#039;s Day gift for my dad, who is a scholar of this era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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